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Ataev, C.; Homustenko, Y.; Shammakov, S. 1991. The new data about distribution and quantity of some rare species of snakes in south-western Kopet-Dag. Gerpetologicheskie Issledovaniya 1: 51-53, 172.

Ataev, C.A. 1985. [Reptiles of the mountains of Turkmenistan]. (In Russian). Ylym, Ashbhabad. 344 pp.

Ataev, C.A. 1987. [Comparative aspects of herpetofauna of the river valleys of the Sumbar and the Chandyr]. (In Russian, English summary). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1987(6): 49-54.

Ataev, C.A. 1997. Reptiles of the Autonomous Republic of Turkmenistan. (Translation of the turtles section of the Russian 1985 original). Chelonian Conservation and Biology 2(4): 627-634.

Ataev, C.A.; Rustamov, A.K.; Shammakov, S.M. 1994. Reptiles of Kopetdagh. Monographiae Biologicae 72: 329-350.

Ataev, C.A.; Saparova, A. 1986. [Data on fauna and ecology of reptile in Tedzhen-Murgab region]. (In Russian, English summary). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1986(1): 42-46.

Ataev, C.A.; Shammakov, S.M. 1990. [New data on the distribution and abundance of some reptiles at the limit of their range in Turkmenistan]. (In Russian). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1990(3): 69-71.

Ataev, C.A.; Shammakov, S.M. 1997. [Review and problems of herpetological researches in Turkmenistan (1825-1995)]. (In Russian, English summary). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenistana Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 3: 31-38.

Ataev, C.A.; Shammakov, S.M. 1998. [A comparative analysis of the herpetofauna of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan]. (In Russian). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenistana Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 6: 3-7.

Ataev, C.A.; Tuniev, B.S.; Shammakov, S.M. 1994. [Data on status of some rare and little-known species of reptiles in Kopetdag]. (In Russian, English summary). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenistana Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 4: 15-21.

Ataev, C.A.; Tuniev, B.S.; Shammakov, S.M.; Sopyev, S.O.; Rustamov, O.I. 1998. [Batrakho- [Batracho-] and herpetofauna of the East Kopetdagh]. (In Russian, English summary). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenistana Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 5: 31-41.

Atayev, C. 1966. [Material on the number of reptiles in the central Kopet-Dag and adjacent lowland]. (In Russian). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenistana Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 4: 78-80.

Atayev, C. 1966. On the distribution and ecology of some species of snakes in the Central Kopet-Dag. Izv. Akad. Nauk Turkmen SSR Biol. 2: 97-98.

Atayev, C. 1974. Migration of mountainous reptiles into the river valleys of Turkmenistan. Izvestiya Akad. Nauk Turkmen. SSR (Biol.) 1974(3): 38-43.

Atayev, C. 1975. About winter activities of reptiles from Kopetdagh and Badkhyz. Izvestiya Akad. Nauk Turkmen. SSR (Biol.) 1975(4): 63-67.

Atayev, C. 1975. Geographical round-up of the Turkmenistan herpetofauna. Izvestiya Akad. Nauk Turkmen. SSR (Biol.) 1975(3): 75-80.

Atayev, C. 1976. Concerning rare species of reptiles in Turkmenistan. Izvestiya Akad. Nauk Turkmen. SSR (Biol.) 1976(3): 9-14.

Atayev, C. 1977. [The overwintering of some species of reptiles in Kopet-Dagh]. pp. 17-18. In: Darevsky, I.S. [Fourth All-Union Herpetological Conference. Questions in Herpetology]. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Zoologicheskij Institut. Izdatel'stvo 'Nauka', Leningrad. 243 pp. (In Russian).

Atayev, C.; Gorelov, Y.K.; Shammakov, S. 1978. [Data on rare and endangered species of the reptiles fauna of the Turkmenistan]. (In Russian). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1978(4): 81-83.

Barashkina, Z.V. 1987. [On structure of individual plots of Eremias grammica in the eastern Karakum]. (In Russian, English summary). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1987(1): 66-69.

Berezhnoj, O.A. 1980. [Application of stratification method for estimation of reptile populations in the Kizyldzhar ravine (Badkhyz). pp. 22-24]. (In Russian). In: Pesenko, Y.A. (ed.). [Quantitative methods in animal ecology]. Akademiya Nauka SSSR, Leningrad. 154 pp. (Abstract).

Bobrov, V.I. 1986. [Lizard population (Squamata, Sauria) in the south-western Kopetdag]. (In Russian, English summary). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 65(2): 308-310.

Boettger, O. 1888. Die Reptilien und Batrachien Transkaspiens. Zoologische Jahrbücher (Syst.) 3: 870-972.

Boettger, O. 1888. Über die Reptilien und Batrachier Transcaspiens. Zoologischer Anzeiger 11(279): 259-263.

Bogdanov, O.P. 1970. Supplement to the list of Priatrech'ye reptiles. Izv. Akad. Nauk Turkmen SSR (Biol.) 1970(3): 88-89.

Darevsky, I.S. 1977. [Range extension or population fluctuations? (On the occurrence in southern central Asia of a number of lizards new to the fauna of the USSR).] pp. 77-79. In: Darevsky, I.S. [Fourth All-Union Herpetological Conference. Questions in Herpetology]. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Zoologicheskij Institut. Izdatel'stvo 'Nauka', Leningrad. 243 pp. (In Russian).

Darevsky, I.S. 1981. [A first record of the ocellated skink Chalcides ocellatus (Forskål) in the fauna of the USSR]. (In Russian, English summary). Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta 101: 49-51.

Darevsky, I.S. 1981. [The Kopet Dag centre of endemic herpetofauna and the probable causes of its formation]. pp. 47-48. In: Darevsky, I.S.; Ananjeva, N.B.; Barkagan, Z.S.; Borkin, L.Y.; Sokolova, T.M. & Szczerbak, N.N. (eds.). The problems of herpetology: abstracts. Nauka, Leningrad. 163 pp. (abstract, in Russian).

Gallina, S.; Maury, E.; Rogovin, K.; Semenov, D. 1985. Comparacion de dos comunidades de lagartijas de los desiertos Chihuahuense y de Karakum. Acta Zoologica Mexicana Nueva Serie 11: 1-16.

Gromov, A.V. 1981. [Body temperature of the lizard in northern Karakum]. pp. 43-44. In: Darevsky, I.S.; Ananjeva, N.B.; Barkagan, Z.S.; Borkin, L.Y.; Sokolova, T.M. & Szczerbak, N.N. (eds.). The problems of herpetology: abstracts. Nauka, Leningrad. 163 pp. (abstract, in Russian).

Khabibullov, M.R. 1987. [Spreading of Kugitangtau Crest Reptilia and some their adaptation to the conditions of highland]. (In Russian, English summary). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1987(5): 36-41.

Khabibullov, M.R. 1989. [Stellio chernovi (Sauria, Agamidae) - in the Kugitang]. (In Russian, English summary). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1989(1): 28-35.

Khomustenko, Y.D. 1981. [New data on the herpetofauna on central Kopet Dagh]. pp. 142. In: Darevsky, I.S.; Ananjeva, N.B.; Barkagan, Z.S.; Borkin, L.Y.; Sokolova, T.M. & Szczerbak, N.N. (eds.). The problems of herpetology: abstracts. Nauka, Leningrad. 163 pp. (abstract, in Russian).

Khomustenko, Y.D.; Atayev, C. 1979. [On a find of Azerbaidjan lizard (Lacerta raddei Boet.) in the Turkmenistan]. (In Russian, English summary). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1979(6): 72-74.

Lambert, M. 1995. An herpetological interlude in ex-Soviet Central Asia (part 2). British Herpetological Society Bulletin 53: 7-12.

Lantz, L.A. 1918. Reptiles from the River Tajan (Transcaspia). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1918: 11-17.

Laptev, M.K. 1934. Materials to the knowledge of the fauna vertebrate of the Turkmenisran. I. The Great Balkans. II. The western Kopet-Dagh. (English summaries). Transactions Kom. Turkmen. Govt. Protec Tion Nat. Aschabad (Biol. Ser.) 1: 115-147, 149-194.

Makeev, V.M.; Bozhansky, A.T. 1988. [Methodical approaches in the study of reptile density]. pp. 117-127. (In Russian). In: Flint, V.E. (ed.). Redkie i maloizuchennye zhivotnye Turkmenistana: sbornik statei. Rare and insufficiently studied animals of Turkmenistan: collected articles. Ylym, Ashkhabad. 238 pp.

Makeev, V.M.; Bozhansky, A.T.; Khomustenko, Y.D. 1983. [Distribution and numbers of reptiles in the Central Kopet-Dag]. (In Russian, English summary). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 62(7): 1122-1125.

Makeev, V.M.; Bozhansky, A.T.; Kudryavtsev, S.V.; Frolov, V.E.; Khomustenko, Y.D. 1988. [Some results of herpetological investigations in eastern Turkmenia]. pp. 127-143. (In Russian). In: Flint, V.E. (ed.). Redkie i maloizuchennye zhivotnye Turkmenistana: sbornik statei. Rare and insufficiently studied animals of Turkmenistan: collected articles. Ylym, Ashkhabad. 238 pp.

Makeyev, V.M. 1979. [Numbers and biomass of reptiles in the south east Karakumy]. (In Russian, English summary). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 58(1): 133-136.

Pawley, R. 1994. Herping in the former USSR. Vivarium (Lakeside) 6(2): 30-37.

Pieh, A.; Perälä, J. 2001. Eine ungewöhnliche Landschildkröte des Testudo graeca-Komplexes aus Krasnowodsk (Turkmenien) (Testudines: Testudinidae). Herpetozoa 14(1-2): 65-73.

Redzhepaliev, S. 1977. [Reptiles of Kugitangtau.] pp. 183-184. In: Darevsky, I.S. [Fourth All-Union Herpetological Conference. Questions in Herpetology]. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Zoologicheskij Institut. Izdatel'stvo 'Nauka', Leningrad. 243 pp. (In Russian).

Redzhepalyev, S. 1981. [Reptiles from Priamudarya, Turkmenistan]. pp. 114. In: Darevsky, I.S.; Ananjeva, N.B.; Barkagan, Z.S.; Borkin, L.Y.; Sokolova, T.M. & Szczerbak, N.N. (eds.). The problems of herpetology: abstracts. Nauka, Leningrad. 163 pp. (abstract, in Russian).

Rogovin, K.A.; Semenov, D.V.; Gallina, S.; Mauri, M.E. 1982. [On the niche overlap in time and space in lizard communities of the Repetek Biosphere Reserve]. (In Russian). Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 264(4): 1016-1018.

Rustamov, A.K. 1947. Some data on faunistic changes on West Uzboi (Middle Asia). C. R. Acad. Sci. Moscow 55(9): 885-888.

Rustamov, A.K.; Atayev, C. 1976. New data on herpetofauna of Turkmenistan. Izvestiya Akad. Nauk Turkmen. SSR (Biol.) 1976(5): 47-53.

Rustamov, A.K.; Khabibullov, M.R. 2010. [Once more about herpetofauna's research in Koitendag (Kugitang)]. (In Russian). Selevinia 2009: 93-98.

Rustamov, A.K.; Makeev, V.M. 1981. [The conservation of rare & disappearing species of herpetofauna of Turkmenistan & the rational use of poisonous snakes]. (In Russian). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1981(4): 10-17.

Rustamov, A.K.; Makeev, V.M.; Sopyev, O.S.; Shammakov, S. 1988. [Problems in reptile conservation in Turkmenistan and work with the Red Data Book]. pp. 16-24. (In Russian). In: Flint, V.E. (ed.). Redkie i maloizuchennye zhivotnye Turkmenistana: sbornik statei. Rare and insufficiently studied animals of Turkmenistan: collected articles. Ylym, Ashkhabad. 238 pp.

Rustamov, A.K.; Shammakov, S. 1982. On the herpetofauna of Turkmenistan. Vertebrata Hungarica 21: 215-226.

Rustamov, A.K.; Sopyev, O.S.; Karaev, M.; Ataev, C.A.; Pinyasova, R.I. 1988. [The fauna and ecology of birds and reptiles in the Kugitang Range]. pp. 82-117. (In Russian). In: Flint, V.E. (ed.). Redkie i maloizuchennye zhivotnye Turkmenistana: sbornik statei. Rare and insufficiently studied animals of Turkmenistan: collected articles. Ylym, Ashkhabad. 238 pp.

Shammakov, S. 1964. On some rare species of reptiles in Turkmenia. Izv. Akad. Nauk Turkmen. SSR Biol. 6: 86-88.

Shammakov, S. 1964. On the number of Reptilia in the small ridges of western Turkmenia. Izv. Akad. Nauk Turkmen. SSR Biol. 1: 86-88.

Shammakov, S. 1971. Concerning herpetofauna of the Kopetdag Piedmont Plain. Izv. Akad. Nauk Turkmen SSR (Biol.) 1971(6): 49-55.

Shammakov, S. 1981. [Ecologo faunistic analysis of the reptiles from the plains of Turkmenistan]. pp. 154-155. In: Darevsky, I.S.; Ananjeva, N.B.; Barkagan, Z.S.; Borkin, L.Y.; Sokolova, T.M. & Szczerbak, N.N. (eds.). The problems of herpetology: abstracts. Nauka, Leningrad. 163 pp. (abstract, in Russian).

Shammakov, S. 1981. [Reptiles of the plains of Turkmenistan]. (In Russian). Ylym, Ashkhabad. 308 pp.

Shammakov, S.; Ataev, C.; Rustamov, E.A. 1993. Herpetogeographical map of Turkmenistan. Asiatic Herpetological Research 5: 127-136.

Shammakov, S.; Atayev, C. 1971. [The snakes of Turkmenistan]. Ylym, Ashkhabad. 28 pp.

Skalon, N.V. 1982. [Amphibians and reptiles of southwest Kopetdag]. pp. 146-157. (In Russian). In: Nechaev, N.T. (ed.). [The nature in western Kopetdag.]. Ylym, Ashkhabad. 227 pp.

Sopyev, O.S.; Pinyasova, R.M. 1981. [Distribution and abundance of agamas on Kugitang Range]. pp. 126-127. In: Darevsky, I.S.; Ananjeva, N.B.; Barkagan, Z.S.; Borkin, L.Y.; Sokolova, T.M. & Szczerbak, N.N. (eds.). The problems of herpetology: abstracts. Nauka, Leningrad. 163 pp. (abstract, in Russian).

Sperl, J.W.K. 1993. Karakum, die Wüste Turkmenistans. DATZ (Die Aquarien- und Terrarien-Zeitschrift) 46(12): 790-791.

Starkov, V.G. 1988. [New data on the herpetofauna of western Kopetdagh]. (In Russian). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1988(6): 66-67.

Strojny, W. 1975. [A lizard from the Kara-Kum Desert]. (In Polish). Wszechswiat 1975(1): 19-20.

Szczerbak, N.N. 1979. [New findings of lizards and snakes in the middle Asia territory]. (In Russian, English summary). Vestnik Zoologii 1979(1): 68-70.

Szczerbak, N.N. 1994. Zoogeographic analysis of the reptiles of Turkmenistan. Monographiae Biologicae 72: 307-328.

Szczerbak, N.N.; Khomustenko, Y.D.; Golubev, M.L. 1986. [Amphibians and reptiles of the Kopetdag Reserve and adjacent territories]. (In Russian). In: Shcherbak, N.N. (ed.). [The nature of central Kopetdag.] Ylym, Ashkhabad. 190 pp. Pp. 76-110.

Tashliev, A.O. 1974. [Protection and development of the animal world of Turkmenistan]. (In Russian). Ylym, Ashkhabad. 32 pp.

Tsellarius, A.Y. 1975. Fauna, biotopic distribution and numbers of reptiles in the Repetek reserve. Izvestiya Akad. Nauk Turkmen. SSR (Biol.) 1975(6): 42-47.

Tsellarius, A.Y. 1986. [Preliminary report on the role of day lizards in desert communities]. (In Russian, English summary). Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta 157: 167-176.

Tsellarius, A.Y. 1990. [Reptiles and their place in the pistacchio forest (Turkmenistan, Badkhyz)]. (In Russian). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1990(4): 38-46.

Tsellarius, A.Y.; Cherlin, V.A.; Lukin, Y.A. 1983. [Reptile population of Eroilanduz drainless depression (Badkhyz, Turkmenia)]. (In Russian, English summary). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1983(6): 63-66.

Tuniyev, B.S.; Atayev, C.; Shammakov, S. 1998. Report on fauna of amphibians and reptiles from eastern Kopet Dag in Turkmenistan. Russian Journal of Herpetology 5(1): 74-81.

Tuniyev, B.S.; Dusej, G.; Flärdh, B. 1999. Zoogeographic analysis of the herpetofauna of south-western Turkmenistan. Russian Journal of Herpetology 6(2): 125-142.

Velikanov, V.P. 1977. On new finds of Alsophylax pipiens Pallas and Agkistrodon halys caraganus in the Turkmenistan. Izvestiya Akad. Nauk Turkmen. SSR (Biol.) 1977(5): 81-82.

Zinchenko, V.K.; Ritskov, O.E. 1990. [New finds of rare species of snake (Serpentes, Colubridae) in central Kopetdagh]. Vestnik Zoologii 1990(6): 58.